It’s time to start the speculation game because we’ve just got a ton of rumours for Battlefield 4, courtesy of ChipHell‘s member ‘Archangel’ who has shared some new details about the game. Apparently, these details are straight from EA’s Chinese team that took part in an internal Battlefield 4 conference, where the alpha version of the game was shown off. Sounds exciting, no?

According to the rumours, firstly Battlefield 4 is still powered by the Frosbite 2 engine, except the game will stress the engine at 80% of its capabilities, as opposed to Battlefield 3 which apparently only pushed 30-40% of what the engine is really capable of. Battlefield 4 is tentatively scheduled to release on October 23, 2013, and will be on all platforms, both current and next-gen.

EA’s employees suggest that the next-gen version of the game will run at 60fps and support up to 64 players online, while the current-gen versions will run at 30fps and won’t be able to support that many players, most likely scaling down to a 32 player capacity. It’s possible that DICE may introduce fps caps for the PC version, but the cap will be at 100fps so it’s not worrying. It was also said that DICE strangely won’t introduce a lot of new features, but Battlefield 4 will support tessellation and dynamic lighting.

It was confirmed that there will be voice commands, as well as a Commander role online, with new tools and abilities. The game will be set in modern-day scenarios and will feature support for video sharing directly via Battlelog. Lastly, Cloud storage will also be in, for statistics.

An interesting rumour is that for the first time in the series history, Battlefield will support female characters, but we don’t know whether they’ll be available in the multiplayer and single-player or in only one. There are three factions in the game, namely USA, Russia and China.

Keep in mind that this is all rumour right now, and none of it can be confirmed as true. Still, it’s rather interesting to think about, and at least it’s something to speculate about.

But..a bunch of Asians playing a secret squirrel Battlefield game in a closed-off underground conference room sounds exciting :(

http://twitter.com/Weeman360 Weeman360

Hahaha fine

http://egamer.co.za/ Azhar Amien

:D/

Michael Matusowsky

Azhar, always such a cutie.

http://twitter.com/Weeman360 Weeman360

lol

http://egamer.co.za/ Azhar Amien

potato? o_O

sage of the six paths

As long as they don’t try to do QTE’s. Female characters? Probably in the SP since as far as I know you can’t really customize your character in MP beyond load out and class and stuff.

Michael Matusowsky

Bring back the ability to destroy the entire terrain :(. It’s no fun if you shoot a rocket launcher at a part of a building and it doesn’t collapse entirely… Or look like it even got a scratch… But hmm.. 80% of the engine’s capacity when BF 3 was only 30-40%? cryEngine is getting a run for it’s money.

http://www.facebook.com/nicholas.serafino.9 Nicholas Serafino

When this game gets Robert Downey Jr. flying a jet, then we’ll talk awesomeness :P